 Re: be skeptical about all religion, Eastern or Western
On 24 Mar 2005 10:59:06 -0800,
calderhome@yahoo.com <calderhome@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Words can be just so much BS if they don't reflect the reality of the
> speaker. It is possible to use beautiful words to misdirect, mislead,
> and mind control people for your own selfish ends. That is what
> organized religion has done for thousands of years, and that is the art
> of being a successful guru. Religion is a business, not just a calling.
>
> see: http://home.att.net/~meditation/Osho.html - "Osho, Bhagwan
> Rajneesh, and the Lost Truth"
>
> see: http://home.att.net/~meditation/CommonLies.html - "Common Lies of
> the Phony World of Mystics"
>
> see: http://home.att.net/~meditation/soul.html - "Do you have a
> soul?"
>
> Christopher Calder
> http://home.att.net/~meditation/ - home page
Yes. There are lots of con men out to get the unwary seeker. But I hope
you don't imply that *all* are in it just for the money. In this group,
for instance, lots of people get free advice on all kinds of yoga. Here
are yogis, more or less advanced, from many different schools, and
nobody has to pay a penny to get an answer (or, often, many answers) to
a question pertaining to their yoga practice. In fact, the really
serious yogis are actually prepared to pay for helping others along the
path, putting up web pages of free information, setting aside much of
their time to participate in discussions on this newsgroup and other
fora etc.
It is unfortunate that so many weird cults are borrowing the goodwill of
the term 'Yoga' to add credibility to some sinister practice.
There is, however, a way to determine whether a practice is really yoga
or not:
Any group or person who practices violence, lying, theft, greed, sexual
excesses is not practicing yoga, these practices being in contradiction
to the yamas, the first and most important principles a yogi must abide
by.
S.
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